Dennis Thompson

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Dennis Thompson is a senior engineering professional in financial markets technology. He worked at multiple financial firms including a hedge fund, an exchange, an investment bank, a prop trading firm, and a trading platform provider.

He built super low latency trading systems and related software for more than a decade at multiple financial firms across multiple asset classes. He has first-hand experience developing trading systems software components like market data feed handlers, order management system, matching engine, smart order router, algo/strategy engine, trading signals computation, risk management system, etc. and with low latency technologies like FPGA, kernel bypass, OS/Network tuning, etc.

Dennis holds a Masters degree in Computer Science from University of Illinois.

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Ace the Trading Systems Engineer Interview (C++ Edition): Insider's Guide to Top Tech Jobs in Finance
Price: $24.99 USD. Words: 17,430. Language: English. Published: July 2, 2020 . Categories: Nonfiction » Computers & Internet » Software development & engineering / general, Nonfiction » Career Guides » Computer Science
Top 3 reasons why a software engineer might be interested to work at financial firms in the capital markets area 1) work with top Hedge Funds, Investment Banks, HFT firms, Algorithmic Trading firms, Exchanges, etc. 2) implement smart algorithms and build low-latency, high-performance and mission-critical software with talented engineers 3) earn top compensation
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